“Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.”
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Title page and Chapter 2), 1937
God Knows (1984)
“Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.”
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Title page and Chapter 2), 1937
“You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“You won't find a new country, won't find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.”
" The City http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_33.htm", st. 2 (1910)
Context: You won't find a new country, won't find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You'll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighbourhoods, turn grey in these same houses.
You'll always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there's no ship for you, there's no road.
Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 19, “The Ruined Woman” (p. 310)
“Love can't be forced into existence,(…)It won't come simply because you will it to happen”
Source: Once and Always
“Jamie: You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
Landon: That's not a problem.”
Variant: You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
Source: A Walk to Remember